Disclaimer: Inuyasha belongs to Rumiko, X-men to Marvel. Lucky bastards.
Authors note: Thanks once again for all the wonderful reviews. Oh, and fair warning. There is Romance in this chapter. Lot's and lot's of fluffy goodness. Also, It's Saturday in this chapter. They've been at school for one week. So Kag and Kurt have known each other for about a month. I'm sorry if you think they are getting together to fast. Everyone has a different opinion about what's to fast and what's to slow. Hope it worked out ok, anyway. Now, read and enjoy!
Chapter Seven: Date's and Dog-demons
Kurt swung back and forth from the dining room chandelier. Hair hanging around his face. His brow was furrowed in deep thought. Arms crossed and frowning.
"How do I go about zis?" He pondered. "Amanda made it sound so simple. Just ask her Kurt, it's easy." He mimicked her voice, then snorted. "Like I can just go up to her and say 'Hallo Kagome vould you like to go out vith me?"
"Ok."
WHUMP!
"Ow zat hurt.Uh, Kagome! How long have you been zer?" He asked fearfully.
"Long enough to hear you ask me out." She smiled at him then walked over and helped him off the floor.
"Oh, um, are you sure? I mean I don't exactly look.normal." he indicated his demonic appearance.
Kagome smirked, causing Kurt to blink, never having seen that look on her face before. Then she leaned in closer to him and he leaned back, a little nervious.
"Well Kurt, like your always saying, Girls dig the fuzzy dude." Then she grinned, seeing how flustered he was. "And besidesblue is my favorite color." Then she winked and leaned away from him. "So where are you taking me?"
By then Kurt had gotten his wits back long enough to realize she was flirting with him, so he grinned, deliberately showing his fangs. "Zat's a surprise. You just be ready around five. Dress varm and casual." And with a cheeky wink in her direction he teleported to parts unknown.
Kagome laughed merrily and left to go tell Sango.
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Inuyasha sat up with a gasp. Gulping in great lung full's of air.
'What the fuck was that?!' He thought while trying to get his heart rate back to normal. 'A nightmare, just a nightmare.' He rationalized, before scowling in puzzlement. 'Hold on, since when the hell do I fall asleep
randomly?'
He thought back on what had happened. He had been sitting in his tree again last night and he'd happened to glance up at the sky. Spotting his star he had remembered the night when Kagome had told him about them. That seemed so long time ago. Feeling stupid, he'd asked the star to bring them back so they could finish the jewel and he could wish to become a full demon. It didn't cross his mind that he'd never even thought to ask the star for the same thing. He'd waited around for a while and when his missing companions didn't appear out of thin air he settled down for a long sulk, and must have fallen asleep.
That was when he'd had the dream. He shuddered just thinking about it. He'd seen them all die. Miroku being sucked up in his wind tunnel, taking Sango and Kirara along with him. Shippo in a pool of his own blood. And the worst. The thing that made his chest feel like it was being split open. Was Kagome, beaten, and bloody. And pinned to the god-tree with an arrow through her heart.
He shook his head viscously trying to dislodge the image. He needed to get to them! They were obviously in trouble! He needed to protect Kagome! With that decision in mind, he launched himself out of the god-tree and raced toward the village. "That crazy bitch gets herself into more trouble than I do." He muttered under his breath as he ran.
Bursting into Kaede's hut he skid to a stop, kicking up dust.
"Baba! You gotta take down the barrier, right now!"
Kaede didn't looked up from her herbs. "And why should I do that Inuyasha?"
"Because their in fucking trouble and I need to go save them."
"Why do you wish to save them Inuyasha? They are not your friends, you've said so." She still didn't look up.
Inuyasha sat down cross-legged and cross-armed, but he didn't answer.
"And how do you know they are in trouble?"
He turned his head away with a huff. "None of your business baba." He growled.
Kaede sighed. "No Inuyasha, I will not take down the barrier."
He shot to his feet, growling loudly and fists clenched. "Then their all gonna die!" He bellowed.
Kaede lowered her head as if in great sadness. "It is most regrettable."
A picture of Kagome, pinned to the god-tree flashed through Inuyasha's mind. He looked at Kaede, eye's blazing gold fire.
"They're my only fucking friends hag! They won't fucking die! I won't allow it!" He screamed, then realizing what he'd just said he clamped his mouth shut and lowered his head, allowing his bangs to cover his eye's.
Kaede finally looked up from her herbs, seeing the once proud Dog-hanyou looking beaten. His head lowered and fluffy white ears drooping.
"Inuyasha do ye wish to see your friends?" she asked.
He glanced up at her through his hair, eye's sparking with determination.
"Yes."
It was whispered, and hardly noticeable, but there it was.
Kaede smiled. "Then lets get you to them.
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Hank glanced at the most recent analysis from the new recruits. This time it was Miroku.
Glancing down, he read through the statistic's of the young man's 'wind tunnel' then raised an eyebrow.
"I think I need to contact Forge." He stated. Then walked out of his lab to locate a phone.
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"Kurt sit still! I can't brush your hair if you keep bouncing around!"
"Es tut mir leid(I'm sorry) Amanda, I'm just zo nervous."
Amanda shrugged. "What's there to be nervous about? Your taking a pretty girl out to have a good time."
Kurt just fidgeted some more. Amanda grabbed his chin and turned him to look her in the eye.
"You like Kagome right?"
The nervousness disappeared as he became suddenly serious. "Yes. Very much."
She smiled. "Then there's nothing to worry about. She like's you too ya know, I can tell." She winked playfully at him and laughed at his astonished face. "So where are you taking her?"
Kurt grinned up at her. "Ah, ah, ah zat vould be tellink." he waved his finger scoldingly in her direction.
She finished brushing his hair into some type of order, then stood him up and turned him around, examining her work.
"Ya look good, but you'd better hurry or your gonna be late." She pointed at his alarm clock.
"Verdammit!" He exclaimed upon seeing the time. Then raced out the door. A few seconds later a knock sounded and Amanda walked over and opened the door again to see Sango and Shippo standing in the hall.
"Are you sure we should be doing this?" Sango questioned.
"Of course. It's written down in the code's of friendship. Passed down from one generation of friends to the next. That one friend must spy on the other should they happen to get a date. Especially if that friend is a male, since they are generally clueless and have absolutely no idea what their doing." She nodded as if imparting great wisdom to them.
"Well let's go or where going to lose them." Shippo called while racing down the hall.
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Unaware of his friends plans Kurt was pacing back and forth in the entrance hall. A noise on the stairs causing him to look up.
'Mein gott, she's gorgeous.'
Kagome was wearing a pair of black pants with a dark blue, long sleeved, shirt that brought out her beautiful eye's. The Shikon no Tama hung around her neck glittering in the evening sun. her hair swaying gently around her.
'Damn, he looks good enough to eat!' Then she shook her head and frowned. 'I've been hanging around Miroku to much, I'm starting to think like him.'
Kurt was dressed in a pair of baggy, black, men's dress pants and a silk maroon colored dress shirt, the first three buttons undone. His hair hung around his face in a roguish manner. Gold eye's glinting, he grinned, flashing those fangs that Kagome enjoyed seeing so much.
"You look beautiful Kagome." Then he pulled something out from behind his back. "Zis is for you."
She took the pink rose from his fuzzy blue hand, smiling, then wrapped her arms around his neck and hugged him.
'Man he smells good.' She thought, while absent mindedly running her fingers through the hair at the back of his neck.
A strange rumbling noise was coming from Kurt, she pulled back to look him in the face and saw that he was wearing a slightly glazed expression.
She narrowed her eye's at him. "Kurt are you purring?"
He snapped back to reality. "Purring? No, of course not. Vhat ever gave you zat idea?" He laughed nervously.
"Right." She drawled with obvious disbelief.
"Vell, let's get going." He flipped on his inducer and Kagome pouted, she preferred his real appearance to this image, then he offered her his arm and with a smile Kagome took it deciding that she would take Kurt however she could get him, image inducer or blue fuzz boy, it didn't matter, in the end it would always be Kurt. She hadn't forgotten about the purring though, just decided she'd leave that mystery for another day.
After all, she had a date with an elf.
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Forge sat in front of a glowing computer screen. "Weird! Your right they are really similar."
Hank nodded from his position behind him. "You see how the energy's are practically identical. This is most intriguing."
Forge frowned. "Yeah, but according to this, that hole of his is slowly getting larger. If it gets too big it'll eventually suck him in."
Hank turned to look at him. "Is there anything we can do?"
Forge spent several minutes in deep thought. "Maybe. I might have an idea, since I've worked with this type of thing before. Where gonna need to talk to him though and see if he even want's to do it. Plus we'll need this girl." He tapped at a picture of Kagome on the screen.
"Kagome? Why?"
"We're gonna need both of her ability's for what I've got planned."
"Will it be dangerous?"
"Anything is dangerous if given a chance. But I think this might just work." And with that Forge printed out both Miroku's and Kagome's information. Then sat sown to begin planning out how they where going to pull this off.
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Rogue had left the institute earlier that afternoon in an attempt to avoid groping any more of the X-Men. She'd gotten Scott twice, Logan three times before she left, Forge as he was coming in the door, and she'd lost count of how many times she'd gotten Miroku. He seemed to be wherever she went, like he was deliberately following her. Or at least he was, until Sango had knocked him out before she'd rushed off somewhere. Thank god she hadn't gotten Hank or the Professor, that would have been just too much.
Why wasn't the stupid thing going away? Nobody really knew for sure. The wind tunnel was getting smaller true, but she'd never kept someone's powers this long before. She hadn't even been able to go to school all week incase she groped a teacher or something! Miroku had suggested that it might be because it wasn't a power, but a curse. She had just shrugged. Hank told her this morning that it should be completely gone by the end of the day, so all she had to do was avoid men all together until then.
"Hello Chere' what you doin' out here."
Rogue twitched then went completely still. "You stay right where you are swamp rat. Don't come any closer Ah'm warrnin you."
"What. Your not happy to see Gambit? I'm hurt cher'" He walked up and put a hand on her shoulder.
Rogue turned around slowly. "You asked for it."
Several minutes later Rogue walked out of the park leaving behind a blushing and stammering Cajun.
She was feeling much better now. For all men talked about it, they sure where quick to shut up when it happened to them.
"HeythereRogue.WhatnoneofyourlittleX-geekfriendswannabearoundoyuanymore."
Grinning evilly she turned. "Hello Pietro."
*A few minutes later*
Rogue laughed as she looked back at Pietro who, for probably the first time in his life, was standing completely still. Ha, this was great!
"Rogue?"
She looked up at Scott. Who was beginning to look distinctly panicky.
"Hello Scott." She smiled sweetly. Too sweetly.
'Might as well use it while I've got the excuse.' She thought. Oh yes, this was going to be fun.
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Kagome and Kurt sat in a monster flick at the movies. Laughing at the supposedly scary monsters. It wasn't scary at all for Kagome. I mean, once you've spent two years fighting demon's bigger and stronger then you, and then rummaging through their remains for Shikon shards, stuff like horror movies just didn't faze you anymore.
She reached back when she felt something pelt her in the back of the head. Turning she saw two annoying little boys throwing candy at them. She tried to ignore them but eventually it just got too annoying.
As she turned around to tell them to knock it off she felt a hand on her arm. She looked at Kurt and he gave her a wink then flipped off his inducer and turned to the boys, eye's glowing eerily in the dark room. Then he flashed them his fangs.
The boys screamed and started running, falling all over each other in their haste to get away. Kurt flipped his inducer back on before others could turn to look. People figured that the movie was just to scary for boys that young and thought nothing more about it.
Kurt and Kagome grinned at each other. Then Kagome leaned into Kurt while he put his arm around her and they continued to watch the ridiculous horror film happily.
Sango sat through most of the movie in the back row with her hands over Shippo's eye's. Amanda had her hands over his ears.
"What's goin' on? I thought I heard screams."
"It's nothing Shippo, just the movie."
Both young women continued to sit like that and hope that the movie would be over soon.
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Inuyasha poked his head out of the well and took a cautious sniff. The scent's were old. And that other males smell was all over the place!
Inuyasha growled and climbed fully out of the well to make his way into the house.
Inside he sniffed around a little and located Kagome's family in the Living area of the house(Or whatever the heck it was Kagome called it). Ears twitching around on top of his head, he made his way into the room. After the customary ear tweaking, hero worship, and sticky ofuda's that didn't work. They managed to sit down and discuss things. In discovering that Kagome and the others had left with the strange blue demon Inuyasha threw a slight fit, until Mrs.Higurashi calmed him down. It was decided that Inuyasha would stay here until they could got ahold of Kagome and, if it was alright with her, then Inuyasha could go to America and be with his friends.
They had tried to call Kagome but where told that she was on a date. Which sent Inu into another rage until Mrs.Higurashi pulled his ear sharply and explained to him that as Kagome's friend he should be happy for her and that he had no say in who Kagome could date or not. Besides she liked Kurt, he was such a sweet boy and would treat Kagome well. Then she steered him into the living room and plopped him down in front of the T.V with a cup of Ramen and the remote. Inu was a happy puppy from then on.
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Kagome and Kurt where walking through the park as the sun began to set, munching on some ice cream. After they had finished Kagome felt a drop land on her hand. Glancing up she saw that rain clouds where gathering.
"Come on Kurt, it's gonna rain."
Kurt looked panicked. "If it starts raining to hard it vill short out my inducer."
"Come on, let go!" She grabbed his hand and they began running. They didn't make it though as the rain started pouring. His inducer sparked and went out.
Without thinking Kagome grabbed him and shifted. Stopping everything.
And they both looked around in awe.
Every rain drop had been frozen, looking like floating crystals, and with the rays of the setting sun behind them the whole world was lit up in red and gold, reflecting and sparkling off of the crystallized rain drops.
Kurt turned to Kagome to see that she had the same crystals shining in her hair, eye's sparkling with laughter.
She threw her arms out and began to twirl around, catching more of the fiery colored rain drops in her hair.
Kurt watched in silence and knew for a certainty that he was falling in love with her.
She ran over and grabbed Kurt's hand and together the twirled around, laughing and sending crystals sparkling and flying in every direction.
Kagome lost her balance mid twirl and would have fallen if Kurt hadn't twisted her so she landed on his chest, both fell to the ground out of breath, then started laughing again.
Kagome's laughter stopped as she looked down into Kurt's bright gold eye's. Their gazes locked.
Slowly, Kurt brought his three fingered hand up to her cheek. Caressing it before leaning up and kissing her softly on the lips. Quickly pulling away and looking into her eye's.
Kagome wound her fingers into his blue-black hair, then leaned down and really kissed him.
Kurt's eye's widened. Then glazed. Then closed all together. The rumbling started again.
After a while they came up for air. Both with very dazed expressions.
"Wow."
Kurt couldn't form coherent sentences yet.
"So..what are we now?" Kagome asked hesitantly.
Kurt shook his head then looked up at her and grinned. "Vhat, you think I'm goink to let you go now zat I've got you? Not a chance Liebling(darling)"
"Good, Because I wasn't planning on letting you go so easy Koi." Then she gave him a sly look. "So..you don't purr, huh?" she indicated his rumbling chest. He just grinned sheepishly, but didn't release her or stop purring.
They both stayed snuggled together for a few minutes before Kagome sighed.
"We should probably get out of the rain and return to normal time."
"Ja, ve better."
So reluctantly the new couple stood up and made their way to a little restaurant across from the park. After fixing Kurt's watch(He had a lot of practice in this) they returned things to normal. Then made their way inside.
"That was fun, we should do that again sometime ."
He glanced at her out of the corner of his eye. Then smiled. "Vhat, you mean date?" He asked jokingly. She whacked him in the stomach.
"No you dummy, I meant the rain. But yes, you are taking me out again since your my .oof!" She'd bumped into someone. Turning she began to apologize. "Oh I'm really sorry I..Sesshomaru!!"
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Authors note: Ah, ha ha ha ha ha! The mother of all cliffhangers! It will be explained in the next chapter. Ok people. I need your help once again. Now I would like to see who you would like to see Inuyasha paired with. It can be any female except Kagome because she belongs to Kurt, and Kikyo because I hate her. I also need help with Rogue. So tell me what you'd like to see happen. Also I didn't translate Kurt's "Verdammit" since it would have looked funny. Its pretty easy to figure out. Just take off the Ver. Ha ha. And no, Inu's dream wasn't a premonition. Just a nightmare sent by the evil authoress to get his cute doggy-butt movin'. More on what Hank and Forge have discovered about Miroku's wind tunnel next chapter. Also I didn't forget about Kagome and Kurt's 'shadows' they come in next chapter too. How do you think Shippo is going to react upon seeing Sesshomaru so close to his adopted parents? My guess is, not well. Now review and I will get the next chapter out pronto.
